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| 3. Yet they have taken beside HIM gods, who create nothing but are themselves created, and who have no power to harm or benefit themselves, nor have they any power over death or life or Resurrection. 4. And those who disbelieve say, `It is naught but a lie which he has forged, and other people have helped him with it.' Indeed, they have perpetrated a great injustice and a great falsehood. 5. And they say, `These are fables of the ancient; and he has got them written down and they are read out to him morning and evening.' 6. Say, `HE, Who knows every secret of the heavens and the earth, has revealed it. Verily, HE is the Most Forgiving, Merciful.' 7. And they say, `What sort of Messenger is this that he eats food, and walks in the streets ? Why has not an angel been sent down to him that he might be a warner with him ? 8. `Or a treasure should have been sent down to him, or he should have had a garden to eat therefrom.' And the wrongdoers say, `You follow but a man bewitched.' 9. See how they coin similitudes for thee ! Thus they have gone astray and cannot find a way. 10. Blessed is HE Who, if HE please, will assign to thee better than all that - gardens through which streams flow - and will also assign to thee palaces. 11. Nay, they deny the Hour, and for those who deny the Hour, WE have prepared a blazing fire. |
